Introduction to the week 1

The GlobalArctic MOOC introduces you the dynamics between global changes and changes in the Arctic. This course aims to highlight the effects of climate change in the Polar region. In turn, it will underline the impacts of a warmer Arctic on the planet Earth. For human civilization, the Arctic stands both as a laboratory and a warning for human kind.
Besides, this course gives course followers an understanding of the key challenges and pathways to sustainable development in the Arctic region.
This course is unique as it gathers several world’s experts for the first time to speak about the Arctic. Their respective inputs from different academic perspectives and disciplines offer a relevant and complete assessment of the Arctic region and its connection to the rest of the planet. At the end of the day, the course intends to offer in full scope the keys to understanding as the Arctic plays as a mirror of the human and geological dynamics.

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从本节课中

WEEK 1 EARTH SYSTEM DYNAMICS

This first week aims to overlook the different effects of the climate change in the Arctic. And vice-versa, we will introduce and evaluate the effects of a warmer Arctic on the rest of the planet. Besides, lectures will raise consequences on the biodiversity and negative outcomes with pollutants in the Arctic region.

教学方

Matthias Finger

Professor

脚本

Let us immediately move to the first block. This first block is about Earth system dynamics and the role the Arctic plays in it. Leading experts will explain to you how global CO2 emissions affect the Arctic, in particular the warming of the Arctic. They will talk about black carbon and it's warming effects, and about methane release as a result of permafrost thawing, which, in turn, is a result of the warming Arctic. And then we will change perspective and look at how the warming Arctic affects the Earth system in turn.